The Glory Days of American Journalism

By Matthew Yglesias – American news media has never been in better shape. That’s just common sense. Almost anything you’d want to know about any subject is available at your fingertips.

Yet essentially none of this bounty is reflected in the deeply pessimistic latest edition of the Pew Research Center’s annual State of the Media Report. Pew’s overview makes no mention of the Web’s speed, range, and depth, or indeed any mention at all of audience access to information as an important indicator of the health of journalism. more> http://tinyurl.com/d23om8v